Ragtime

Miloš Forman's multifaceted, highly acclaimed, star-studded (James Cagney, Mandy Patinkin, Booker T. Washington, Pat O'Brien, John Ratzenberger, Norman Mailer, et al.) 1981 film that intertwines the lives of a fireworks maker (Brad Dourif) smitten with a ditzy chorus girl (Elizabeth McGovern) who saves her murdering husband from death row, a prim housewife (Mary Steenburgen) who opens her home to the objections of her husband (James Olson) to a black woman (Debbie Allen) who just gave birth to a young son, and a proud African-American piano player (Howard E. Rollins Jr.) who goes to extraordinary lengths to obtain justice when a racist, unapologetic fire chief (Kenneth McMillan) and his staff take a practical joke to extremes with dire, far-reaching consequences in 1900s New York City.
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